World Bank Enterprise Survey 2022

Pakistan, 2022

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Reference ID

PAK_2022_WBES_v01_M

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World Bank Group (WBG)

Collection(s)

Enterprise Surveys

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Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Jan 22, 2025

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Jan 22, 2025

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Main reason establishment did not hire more workers in the last FY (l33)

Data file: Pakistan-2022-full-data.dta

Overview

Valid: 234

Invalid: 1066

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 6

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 2625

End: 2626

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know (spontaneous)	0	0%
1	Non-wage labor costs were too high	82	35%
2	Legally required minimum wage or cost of dismissal were too high	10	4.3%
3	Lack of skilled labor	25	10.7%
4	Competitive labor costs and benefits were too high	28	12%
5	Not enough budget or headquarters did not authorize the hiring	56	23.9%
6	Other	33	14.1%
Sysmiss		1066

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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